In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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But I was to learn that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory, and that the Martian laugh is a thing to cause strong men to blanch in horror. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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"You know, Monsieur Poirot, that you have carte blanche in every way.. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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He gave carte blanche--and when a millionaire gives carte blanche he usually gets i. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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In spite of the carte blanche assured to him, he had not yet acquired the habit of going about with any considerable sum of money on him. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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I understand that you give me carte blanche to act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you place no limit on the sum I may draw.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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We did not know at the time, but afterwards found out, that she had made it a _sine qua non_ that she should have carte blanche as to the use of the rod. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous